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It sounds great until you start doing the math. We can't decarbonise without nuclear, just look at Germany. It's a poster child for renewables yet it's barely d
by kgabis 3y ago
It sounds great until you start doing the math. We can't decarbonise without nuclear, just look at Germany. It's a poster child for renewables yet it's barely doing better than Poland (where I live). Meanwhile France is (as of now) emitting 1/10th of Germany's CO2 per unit of energy generated.
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/us-can-get-to-100percent-clean-energy-without-nuclear-power-stanford-professor-says.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/us-can-get-to-100percent-cle... https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/11/01/most-scenarios-today-show-you-don-t-need-nuclear-to-get-to-net-zero-jeffrey-sachs https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/11/01/most-scenarios-tod... There are lots of grids without any nuclear power already. Poland only has ~34GW of total fossil generation, very easy to replace without nuclear. https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/PL?wind=false&solar=false https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/PL?wind=false&solar=fal...
- kgabis 3y agoYou're focusing on electricity and omitting heating, transport, industry and farming.
- kleiba 3y agoBy which metric is Germany barely doing better than Poland? In 2023, Poland produced 26% of its electricity from renewable sources [1], while Germany produced 52%. And that is with more than twice the amount of people living (and using energy) in Germany as compared to Poland. [1] https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/01/03/poland-produced-record-26-of-electricity-from-renewables-in-2023/ https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/01/03/poland-produced-recor...
- kgabis 3y agoRenewable energy is not the target, carbon neutrality is. German CO2 emissions per capita were only marginally better than Poland's in 2022 (8.0t vs 8.1t).